Did we do any background checks?

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Friday October 16, 2015 · 4:15 PM PDT

2015/10/16 · 16:15

Destroyed town of east Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. (Photo By Mark Pearson) In the course of the 22 days of the operation, the population of Gaza endured intensive uninterrupted aerial bombardments, artillery shelling and ground o

Another "Military Industrial Complex" neighborhood.

Gun control is a heated issue. President Obama has repeatedly called for more stringent background checks as well as an assault weapon ban. With the number of people killed in the United States each year, clearly something must be done. I support stricter gun laws.

However, once we're in another country who gives a shit, right? We have no clue where these weapons and ammunition are going to end up and we certainly don't do any background checks before we 'dump' them into this war torn region.

Headline: U.S. Begins Air Dropping Weapons To Syrian Fighters

The U.S. military did not name the individual groups that received the small arms ammunition but said their leaders had been screened by the United States, which wants to avoid weapons falling into the hands of Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked fighters.

"Screened," well that's reassuring ...

Imagine how peaceful our neighborhoods would be if another country was air dropping weapons into them ...

The ONLY winner in this MADNESS is The Military Industrial Complex.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Democratic "Leader in waiting" wants War

Kdoug

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Monday April 06, 2015 · 4:03 PM PDT

2015/04/06 · 16:03

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Capitol Hill’s most influential voices in the Iran nuclear debate, is strongly endorsing passage of a law opposed by President Barack Obama that would give Congress an avenue to reject the White House-brokered framework unveiled last week.

The comments Monday by the Democratic leader-in-waiting illustrate the enormity of the task ahead for President Barack Obama and his team ...

Daily Kos Image Graces Charles Koch WSJ Article

Kdoug

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Sunday November 23, 2014 · 6:25 PM PST

2014/11/23 · 18:25

This will be a very short diary ...

I came across an article published in The Wall Street Journal Online from April of 2014 written by Charles Koch entitled: "I'm Fighting to Restore A Free Society."

http://online.wsj.com/...

The article is classic convoluted "Koch Speak" billionaire class drivel ...

Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.

What caught my attention was the illustration gracing the article was the original Daily Kos mast head flag waving guy!!

While the illustration was attributed to "Getty Images" it is defiantly the original mast head painting from the early Daily Kos website.

Somehow seeing our familiar progressive banner along side Charles Koch's justification for why he's buying the political process was a quite noticeable juxtaposition ...

You would have thought The Wall Street Journal was sophisticated enough to catch such ideological train wreck ...

BOMBS to SAVE Lives!

Kdoug

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Friday March 25, 2011 · 1:38 PM PDT

2011/03/25 · 13:38

Over the past few decades Countries around the world, led by the United States of America, have manufactured and sold sophisticated military aircraft. America, France, the United Kingdom as well as others have exported hundreds of airplanes under the guise of "national defense." Until now, the only positive effect has been to increase "exports," improve "balance of payments" thereby strengthening our economy.

Now, FINALLY there is a positive, nondestructive use for all these sophisticated weapons of war.

Rather than being used to destroy the world they can be used to save it ...

Kdoug

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Monday October 04, 2010 · 10:32 PM PDT

2010/10/04 · 22:32

Back in the 1970's Jimmy Carter wanted a foreign policy based upon human rights rather than one based upon propping up tin horn dictators so to let multinational corporations rape, pollute and pillage their countries resources. It was a lofty goal. He sat before the fire in his cardigan sweater asking us to turn down the thermostat to 68º from 72º. He put solar panels on the roof of the White House and Carter was sandbagged by big oil. Exxon/Mobil et al said: "O.K. buster, you don't want to play by our rules? Then 'Fuck you' let's see how long you can last in office if folks have to sit in a two hour gas lines to fill up their car." The rest, as they say, is history ...

However, the bat shit half ass crazy reason solar will finally be developed is below the fold.

Kdoug

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 1:39 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 13:39

Former speech writer for George W. Bush David Frum has "Resigned" from The American Enterprise Institute.
After speaking his mind, at various media outlets, this week on the fact that the Republicans had created their own "waterloo" by blindly opposing President Obama's Health Care Initiative.

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Wednesday December 03, 2008 · 12:47 PM PST

2008/12/03 · 12:47

It looks like 2700 years ago when you were packing for the afterlife you included a Kilo of high test Marijuana.

MSNBC is reporting that scientist recently unearthing a grave in the Gobi Desert that contain over two pounds of "still green" Marijuana.

Kdoug

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Saturday October 04, 2008 · 1:33 PM PDT

2008/10/04 · 13:33

As McCain huddles in Sedona with his Roveianite advisers the word the media is reporting:

McCain plans fiercer strategy against Obama.

GOP plans to focus on the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal ties

Will this strategy work? In a word - NO!

Kdoug

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 5:34 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 17:34

Today Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff made the most astute statement ever uttered by a United States Military Commander:

"We cannot kill our way to victory."

Perhaps it was a brief moment of clarity, a flash of human intuition ... either way truer words were never spoken.

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 9:45 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 09:45

Today McClatchy reports that a Senate Committee headed by John D. Rockefeller IV, D- W. Va that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney knowingly lied in the run up to the Iraq war.

WASHINGTON— A long-awaited Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public Thursday concludes that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available intelligence.

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Monday December 31, 2007 · 11:36 AM PST

2007/12/31 · 11:36

I agree that the decision by The New York Times to hire smirking war monger William Kristol was idiotic.

However, the Old Gray Lady has certainly spoke truth to power in their final editorial of 2007.

The piece entitled "Looking At America" cuts straight to the chase:

There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.

There's more ... a lot more ...

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Wednesday October 17, 2007 · 8:48 PM PDT

2007/10/17 · 20:48

I don't know about you, but when I read that President George W. Bush had surpassed the popularity ... or rather lack of popularity levels of the only President to ever resign his office, Richard M. Nixon, I took notice. On the same day that he broke this infamous record he held a press conference ... and here is what he said:

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